Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney says his firm definitely won't follow Minecraft developers in banning non-fungible tokens (NFTs). As previously reported, Mojang Studios, Minecraft developers, has halted NFT integrations on Wednesday as it believes NFTs are speculative and are prone to scarcity, risk of exclusion and scams are against the game's principles. The move was seen as highly controversial in the NFT community, however, it has been met with acclaim by the group of crypto-skeptic players. The company of Sweeney is the creators of the widely successful battle royale game Fortnite, which is also thought of as a Metaverse platform. Although Epic Games isn't necessarily pro-crypto or NFTs, the CEO has said the company doesn't intend to enforce any views regarding the subject to its users: Developers should be free to design their games and you should be able to decide whether or not to play them. I don't believe that retailers or operating system developers should force their views on other players. We shouldn't. In response to the post, Twitter user Low5ive asked Sweeney if Epic Games' policy on prohibiting hateful/discriminatory content differs from this. In response, Sweeney suggested that Epic Games does make editorial judgments, but NFTs don't currently fall under them. He said that a shop could not make such decisions and would only play any game that is legal, draw the line between accepted norms and what we do, or accept games that conform to the owner’s personal convictions. Mojang Studios' NFT ban has left NFT Worlds, which is a Minecraft-based project, open-source servers, facing one major issue. Related: Delphi Digital: How to get gamers to accept the use of NFTs in their games? Play-to-earn (P2E), an online platform that is driven by the community for play-to earn (P2E) offers an entire crypto- and NFT ecosystem built around. Its NFTs generate 51,000 Ether (ETH), which is $80.8 million worth trading volume at the time. Since the news dropped, however, the floor price of its NFTs has dropped from 3.33 ETH to 1.01 ETH as of the time of writing, while its native token WRLD has dropped by 55% within the same time frame. The NFT Worlds team said that they are currently brainstorming solutions to the Mojang announcement. The team said it is working to connect with Minecraft to determine if a solution is found. If not, a shift to an Minecraft-like game engine or GameFi platform has been discussed as possible possibilities. Minecraft Servers
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